The following year, one of his lithographs appears in the COBRA magazine No. 6.

1950

He has solo exhibitions at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels and at the Galerie de Verneuil in Paris (also 1954).

He wins the International Prize for Painting in Santa Margherita Ligure, where he stays to visit the Italian Riviera.

Painted a series of oil and watercolour abstracts and linear-character serials inspired by the scaffolding and windows of the Chartres Cathedral, including the painting Chartres, the first acquisition by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

Participated in the creation of the René Lust Fondation for awarding The Young Belgian Painters Prize.